[texhax] Collection for social sciences and the humanities for TeXLive 2006

[Uwe Lück]

Hi Jürgen,

I know of a few additional packages that I would like to recommend
for "critical editions".

Although *lineno.sty* and *manyfoot/nccfoots* (ncctools bundle,
manyfoot needs nccfoots.sty) are parts of the ednotes bundle
in a wider sense, they might be considered themselves.
Namely, I have received a query the last days reporting that
some critical edition project uses lineno.sty without footnotes.
And then *numline.sty* might be considered with the same right,
although I think it has not been changed for 10 years or so.
On the other hand, *manyfoot* and its extension *bigfoot*
may be used for critical editions without line numbers,
indeed this is what David Kastrup does (with his bigfoot).
Moreover, *memoir.cls* contains a somewhat extended version
of manyfoot's facilities. (All mentioned so far in latex/contrib)

Moreover *arab.tex* (Plain TeX) and *ledarab* (ledmac bundle)
and possibly something for other languages (*Hebrew*!?
*Sanskrit*!? [Dominik Wujastik works there]) are not mainly
meant for simply authoring Arab etc. documents, rather
for critical editions of Arabic etc. mathematical etc. texts
from the Middle Ages.

And this also applies to many font and language packages.
E.g., there are recent packages for classical Greek
-- *ibicus4*, something by Claudio Beccari, and some
babel versions of them ("polutoniko") -- and for certain
blends of Latin!? (Claudio Beccari again!? may be just
concerning hyphenation -- you might ask him).

Shifting to archeology/ancient history, Peter Wilson has
made some ("new") fonts for transcribing other ancient texts
from the cultures near the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

One might as well think of *classes* from publishers and
journals who/that mainly publish things from the humanities.
Incidentally, mentis comes to my mind.

-- About when will the deadline be? I am working at some changes
for lineno.sty and ednotes.sty, or also thinking on some.

Thanks (for the interesting list!),

Uwe.

At 20:59 07.09.06, Juergen Fenn wrote:

>I am compiling a collection of packages for the next release of TeX
>Live which focuses on the social sciences and the humanities. The
>ling-tex list has already been quite helpful. So any suggestions are
>welcome. Below is my list of packages so far.
>
>
>critical editions
>-----------------
>edmac           is part of collection-formatsextra
>ednotes                    collection-latexextra
>ledmac                     collection-latexextra
>ledpar                     --
>parallel                   collection-latexextra
>parrun                     collection-latexextra
>poemscol                   collection-latexextra
>
>law
>---
>alnumsec                   collection-latexextra
>alphanum
>camel                      collection-latexextra
>jura                       collection-langgerman (really?)
>juramisc                   collection-latexextra
>jurarsp                    collection-latexextra
>juraabbrev                 collection-latexextra
>ratex                      -- (new package)
>advdate                    --
>lextex                     --
>
>bibliography
>------------
>jurabib                    collection-bibtexextra
>
>theology
>--------
>bibleref                   collection-latexextra
>
>
>linguistics
>-----------
>ecltree                    collection-latexextra
>covington                  collection-latexextra
>
>
>covington       - in collection-latexextra, already on my list
>gb4e            - not in tpms?, but available on CTAN
>linguex         - in collection-latexextra
>tree-dvips      - in collection-latexextra
>qtree           - in collection-latexextra
>xyling          - in collection-latexextra
>ecltree         - in collection-latexextra, already on my list
>
>tipa            - in collection-fontsrecommended
>pst-jftree      - in collection-pstricks
>
>avm             - not in TL, not in the TeX Catalogue
>qobitree        - in collection-latexextra
>
>rtrees          - not in TL, not in the TeX Catalogue
>covington       - in collection-latexextra, already on my list
>
>dictsym         - in collection-fontsextra
>fwlw            - not in TL
>lexikon         - in collection-latexextra
>
>dictsym         - in collection-fontsextra
>fwlw            - not in TL
>lexikon         - in collection-latexextra
>
>dialogue        - not in TL
>drama           - in collection-latexextra
>dramatist       - in collection-latexextra
>play            - in collection-latexextra
>poemscol        - in collection-latexextra
>plari           - not in TL
>sides           - in collection-latexextra
>stage           - in collection-latexextra
>verse           - in collection-latexextra
>xmlplay         - in collection-htmlxml
>
>cm-lingmacros   - not in TL, not in the TeX Catalogue
>
>arydshln        - in collection-pstricks
>
>
>pstricks        - a collection of its own
>pst-node        - not in TL?, but in the TeX Catalogue
>pstcol          - not in TL, not in the TeX Catalogue
>psfrag          - not in TL?, but in the TeX Catalogue
>
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